It's Now Official: Stacey Campfield Is A Loser

I’ve written about Tennessee Senator Stacey Campfield is quite the regular here at SBL; I’ve written about him so many times that it’s almost as if I know him personally … though I’d never want to do that.

The first time he appeared here was way back in March, 2009, when he proposed a bill that would have required teachers and school administrators to not say the word ‘Gay’ ever. You know, because if you say ‘Gay’ then people will talk about ‘Gay’ and might even become ‘Gay’—see post HERE.

It would be two years before Stacey next showed up, in March 2011, with his fellow wingnut, and ‘Don’t Say Gay’ co-author, Bill Dunn, when the bill was introduced as possible legislation. It would make it illegal to say the word gay or discuss anything about gay people in schools until the kids reached high school age—see that post HERE.

And strange as it seems, Stacey reappeared on ISBL in February 2012 when he wanted to take some friends to brunch at the Bistro at the Bijou in Knoxville, Tennessee and the owner told him to leave because she didn't like his views on the LGBT community. Now, it’s quite queer that I don’t like Stacey, but I also don’t like discrimination and I was annoyed not only at the Bistro but at those in the LGBT community who cheered this story; how can be ask to stop discrimination against us when we inflict it on others? I don’t know either—see that post HERE.

Like the proverbial Bad Penny, Stacey showed up again in February 2013, as his ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill was dying in the Tennessee legislature. But he had a new bill to push; his new proposed legislation would still ban teachers from discussing any facet of “non-heterosexual” sexuality with children elementary schools, but he tossed in a new wrinkle that included a provision requiring teachers or counselors to inform the parents of students who self-identified themselves as LGBT. Yes, teachers would out their student—see that post HERE.

And finally, the last time—until today—that Stacey Campfield arrived at ISBL was in April, 2013, shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings, when he included a photo of a pressure cooker—like the ones that exploded in Boston—in a blog post attacking US Sen. Dianne Feinstein. See that post HERE.

Stacey Campfield has also said this:

"Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community. It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall."

He’s also declared that ‘straight people don’t get AIDS.’  He also introduced a bill that would cut welfare benefits to parents whose children aren't doing well in school, and, most recently, he compared the federal health care law to the forced transportation of Jews to concentration camps during the Holocaust.

So, yes, he’s an ISBL Asshat of epic proportions. In fact, he’s such a delusional, Teabagging, goose-stepping, wingnutted tool that some members of his own party won’t have anything to do with him. So, why, you may ask, am I writing about Stacey Campfield again?

Last week he lost his reelection bid to return to the Tennessee statehouse by a margin of 66% to 28%. The people of Knoxville made it very clear that they neither want, nor need, fools like Stacey Campfield and their bigoted hate-speech in government.

Snap.

A happy ending.

Oh, as a Happy PS to this story …

Victoria Jackson, the former SNL cast member who has made a name for herself as a Teabagging, anti-Obama wingnut, also lost her election. She was hoping to win a spot on the Williamson County Commission but came in a distant, distant, third.

Sit down Vicki. You’re done.

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ISBL Asshat of the Week [Again]: Stacey Campfield

Stacey Campfield, a Republican state Senator from Tennessee and frequent Asshat of the Week here on ISBL, is at it again. See, in order to, as he now says, highlight the hypocrisy of lawmakers working for gun control, he posted an illustration of a pressure cooker—like the ones used in the Boston bombings—to mock gun control advocates.

“Here comes Feinstein again” Campfield titled the post, in a reference to Senator Dianne Feinstein, who authored an assault weapons ban after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Campfield labeled the pressure cooker illustration with features similar to those of a gun – like a “tactical pistol grip” and “folding stock.”

“Large-capacity, can cook for hours without reloading,” it also says.

And, as gun control advocates and victims of gun violence asked him to remove the image and the commentary for its tastelessness, Campfield refused, telling ABC News:

“I think it’s tasteless when Obama will drag everybody he can up to Capitol Hill and try to pass gun control. I think that was classless and tasteless.”

Um, actually, Obama was putting a face, and faces, to the need to stricter gun control and backgrounds checks, Mr. Campfield. And maybe, had we had stricter background checks, Adam Lanza’s mother might not have had an arsenal in her home within easy reach of her son’s hands; and maybe, you delusional asshat, just maybe Newtown wouldn’t have had to bury twenty-six young souls.

Tasteless and classless? No, that’s on you. Campfield then said:

“I was showing the hypocrisy of Dianne Feinstein, the gun grabbers—of their inability to realize that it is a person that does activity, not an inanimate object, be it a gun or a pressure cooker.”

Yes, Senator Asshat, it is the person that does the activity, and had we had in place stricter background checks, maybe that person wouldn’t have had access to guns. And, to be clear, you lying pandering ass-kissing lapdog to the NRA, no one, not even Senator Feinstein, is trying to “grab” your guns. They’re trying to grab your attention and realize we have a problem with gun violence in this country and need to do something about it.

Then, to show just how out of touch he is, Campfield had no idea he might offend anyone in Boston who was hurt or maimed by the bombs, or the families of anyone in Boston killed by the bombs:

“Really? If my post was inappropriate talking about ‘crock pot control’ then where is the outrage from the left when they push for gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting? I’m sorry if I exposed your double standard....Well, not really.”

Congratulation Tennessee, Stacey Campfield represents you, and you let him say the things he says, and spit in the faces of victims of gun violence, and victims of terrorism, because he wants to keep his hand out for an NRAS payoff. But, what can we expect from a man who tried to stop teachers and school administrators from saying the word ‘gay’ and the man who tried to force teachers and school administrators to ‘out’ any student they suspected might be gay.

He’ s so out of touch with what people want—90% of Americans want stricter background checks—and yet you keep sending him back into politics, Tennessee. Thanks so much for that.

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more ISBL on Campfield: HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE

Stacey Campfield's ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Now Requires Teachers To Out Students

I am not a fan of Tennessee legislator Stacey Campfield--even though I've posted about him HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE--because he comes off as delusional, homophobic, bigoted, possibly self-loathing, and, well, stupid. He is, after the man who doesn't want teachers in Tennessee to say the word 'gay' lest a child hear and suddenly decide, you know, to turn gay. He also uttered this incredible line:

"Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community. It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall."

He also believes straight people cannot contract HIV.

Yeah, like I said, stupid.

Well, even though the Stacey Campfield sponsored 'Don't Say Gay' bill died with the adjournment of the Tennessee state assembly last year, the measure has reared its ugly head again, with a new twist.

The bill, SB 234, still bars Tennessee teachers from discussing any facet of “non-heterosexual” sexuality with children in grades K-, but its newest wrinkle also includes a provision that requires teachers or counselors to inform the parents of some students who identify themselves as LGBT. 

Yes, teachers in Tennessee will be required to out students. Though how they do it without saying gay ......

 Campfield says this new provision helps students who might be "at risk" of The Gay, but then he lets the teacher/counselor decide if the student deserves to have his or her privacy violated:

The general assembly recognizes that certain subjects are particularly sensitive and are, therefore, best explained and discussed within the home. Because of its complex societal, scientific, psychological, and historical implications, human sexuality is one such subject. Human sexuality is best understood by children with sufficient maturity to grasp its complexity and implications [...]

A school counselor, nurse, principal or assistant principal from counseling a student who is engaging in, or who may be at risk of engaging in, behavior injurious to the physical or mental health and well-being of the student or another person; provided, that wherever possible such counseling shall be done in consultation with the student’s parents or legal guardians. Parents or legal guardians of students who receive such counseling shall be notified as soon as practicable that such counseling has occurred

So, they'll be forced to out students who may, or may not, be ready to face that possibility.

Or face the idea that their families might reject them for being gay.

Or face the idea that, once word gets out that teacher outed Billy or Cindy, maybe Billy or Cindy might become the target of bullies and end up attempting suicide.

Yes, let's first not say 'gay' in Tennessee schools because it';s such a horrible thing, but then let's say 'gay' loud and clear to the parents of students who might be the L, or the G, or the B, or the T, or the Q, and see what happens.

Like I said, Stacey Campfield is a hateful, stupid man who needs to find a job where he doesn't have a forum to spread his own brand of, possibly self-loathing,  homophobia.

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Tennessee Tuesday: Don't Watch "Modern Family"....It's Gay

Wingnutted Homophobe
Joey Hensley

On the same day that wingnutted homophobe, Tennessee Senator, Stacey Campfield’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill made it out of a House subcommittee, Chairman of the House Education Subcommittee, wingnutted homophobe Joey Hensley admonished all Tennessee parents not to let their children watch “Modern Family” on television because they might discover there are homosexuals in the world:

“I don’t think ‘Modern Family’ is appropriate for children to watch.”

Hensley said solemnly, and with a straight homophobic face, after a Nashville preacher testified that children might find out about gay people by seeing the show even if teachers aren’t allowed to say gay in schools.
Seriously? Tennessee? Seriously?
This is what you want your legislators to do? Tell teachers what to teach, and what they can and cannot say? And you want your legislators telling you what to watch on TV?
Seriously, Tennessee, you're making me sick.

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Discrimination Is Wrong, No Matter Who The Target

I wasn't planning to write about Stacey Campfield, he of the rampant homophobia, bigotry and utter idiocy, but the more I saw this story, the more annoyed I got.
At the LGBT community. So, here goes....
Stacey Campfield doesn't like gay folk...even though he may be one.....oops did I say that out loud.....and he works his legislative ass off to prove it. He doesn't want folks saying 'gay,' he likes to spread old wives tales about gay men having sex with monkeys to start the AIDS epidemic, he believes straight people cannot get, or transmit, HIV.
In other words, he's a delusional douche. But, the last time I checked this was America where one has the right to be a delusional douche, or not. We all have the right to our opinions, whether others agree with them or not, or even if they're true, or not. That's the great thing. Stacey Campfield can suggest that I, as a gay man, may have had sex with a monkey, and I can say Stacey Campfield is a horse's ass.
But then Stacey Campfield wanted to take some friends to brunch at the Bistro at the Bijou in Knoxville, Tennessee, when he was told by the owner that he had to leave because she didn't like his views on the LGBT community. Martha Boggs, the restaurant owner, says she told him to leave, and banned him from the bistro, over his recent remarks about gays and the origin of the AIDS virus: "When I saw him at the front door, I told him to leave. It’s just my way to show support for the gay community and stand up to somebody I think is a bully. He’s really gone from being stupid to dangerous. I think he needs to know what it feels like to be discriminated against.”
And a lot of us cheered. I didn't, and I'll tell you why.
It's discrimination. Sure, discrimination against a homophobe and, as Boggs says, a bully, but it's still discrimination. She booted him from the bistro because of his opinion. Is that really any different than that florist who wouldn't service a gay couple's wedding, or the B&B that wouldn't allow a gay reception?
I don't like Campfield. I think he is a moron, and he is a panderer and a fear monger, but he's also entitled to his opinion. And he's entitled to brunch.
Let me break it down like this: last week the LGBT community--myself included--was in an uproar because hate group, One Million Moms, demanded JCPenney drop out gay entertainer Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson. We all yelled that that was wrong; we signed a petition, we blogged, we Tweeted, we Facebooked it. It is wrong for that group to discriminate against Ellen because she's a Lesbian.
And I say it was wrong for Boggs to discriminate against Campfield because he's a homophobe. Had she ordered a gay man out of the restaurant because she didn't like his politics, his views, his opinions, we'd all be up in arms about it. But because it was Campfield, we say, Yay!
I say, Nay.
Let's try another approach. Say Martha Boggs protested Stacey Campfield's homophobia and bigotry and lunacy--we'd cheer, of course. But then say Martha Boggs went to brunch at a restaurant owned by Stacey Campfield, and he told her to leave because he didn't like her viewpoint. Would we cheer that? Or do we just cheer when homophobes are the target of discrimination?
Again, don't get me wrong, I loathe Stacey Campfield. He's a liar and a bully and a homophobe and a panderer and, quite possibly, a self-loathing closeted gay man, but he's entitled to his opinion. And if we're going to cheer any establishment that kicks out a customer because of his or her own personal beliefs, then we need to cheer every time it happens. Even when it happens to one of us.
Discrimination is wrong, no matter whom is being discriminated against.
But, that's just me.

I Didn't Say It........

Cynthia Nixon, clearing things up:
"My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my personal story of being gay. I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering. However, to the extent that anyone wishes to interpret my words in a strictly legal context I would like to clarify: While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship."


Like homosexuality, bisexuality is not a choice.
The choice lies within bisexuality when you choose which gender to whom you are attracted. And you have the choice, as a bisexual, to switch that up.
Bisexuality isn't a choice, but what you do with it is.

Sarah, home-schooled fourteen-year-old, on Maryland and marriage equality:
"Today is my 14th birthday and it would be the best birthday present ever if you would vote NO on gay marriage. I really feel bad for the kids who have two parents of the same gender. Even though some kids think it's fine, they have no idea what kind of wonderful experiences they miss out on. I don't want more kids to get confused about what's right and okay. I really don't want to grow up in a world where marriage isn't such a special thing anymore...It's rather scary to think that when I grow up the legislature or the court can change the definition of any word they want. If they could change the definition of marriage then they could change the definition of any word. People have the choice to be gay, but I don't want to be affected by their choice. People say that they were born that way, but I've met really nice adults who did change."


Isn't it cute how little Sarah's teachers, er, parents, er, teachers, give her this special homework assignment--and the proceed to give her an 'A' grade for it?
I mean, what's the point of having children and homeschooling them if you can't use them as pawns in your own personal bigotry?
And they think same-sex parents are a bad thing.

Joey Barton, professional footballer, on homophobia in sports:
"It's a subject quite close to my heart because my dad's youngest brother, the youngest of my uncles, is gay. And I didn't know for a long, long time. He thought because of the society that we were brought up in, which was quite working class, that it would be frowned upon or that we would disown him. So for a lot of years he was in turmoil and was resenting himself for the fact he had these feelings. I was like, 'I love you for you — not for the fact that you are straight or bisexual or all different manner of things. I love you because you're you.'"


I've said it before, and will keep saying it: to change people's minds on the LGBT community, everyone needs to come out.
If some of us live our lives in secrecy and shadow, it makes us look like we live in shame.
And there is no shame in being gay.
Only fabulousness.

Newt Gingrich, still riding the one-man-three-women marriage train:
"It's pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it's a perfect example of what I mean by the rise of paganism. The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization."


Notice how Newt has quietly slipped away from calling it one man and one woman marriage. I mean, why draw any more attention to the fact that you are a serial adulterer who would fuck anything and everything just because?
And, if elected--and I giggle at that because it's a joke--he would serial fuck this country, too.

Elizabeth Warren, running against Republican Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, on lobbyists:
"The people who are sucking up the real resources in this country are the people who can hire the lobbyists, and unfortunately America's middle class doesn't have lobbyists fighting for them."


Maybe this is how we change the government.
Get a PAC going for We The People.
Get some lobbyists for WE The People.
I mean, isn't that how it's done in DC?

Brad Pitt, who has repeated numerous times since 2006 that he and Angelina Jolie would not marry until gay people can, now says he might tie the knot after all:
"We'd actually like to, and it seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren't going to do it till everyone can. But I don't think we'll be able to hold out. It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment."


I appreciate Pitt and Jolie's commitment to marriage equality, but their own relationship needs to take priority.
Call me old-fashioned, but if your kids are asking you to marry mom, maybe you should.
And you could still fight for equality.
And still be way hot. Just sayin'

Cory Booker, Newark mayor, on Governor Chris "Krispy Kreme" Christie's plan for a marriage referendum:



Maybe the eloquence of this mayor is what made that ginormous tub of butter-cream in the governor's mansion apologize for being an asshat.
Maybe Booker should be governor, and Christie could be, oh, i dunno, food taster?

Allen West, Florida congressman, telling Obama and progressive leaders to "get the hell out" of America:
"This is a battlefield, that we must stand upon. We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America...Yeah, I said 'hell'"


Um, Allen, you delusional misinformed wingnut?
Obama won Florida in '08.
And here, in America, you delusional numbnut, people are allowed to disagree and not to worry about being removed form the country.
So, take your decades old, America: Love it or leave it, rhetoric and STFU.

Stacey Campfield, Tennessee political asshat, proving his utter stupidity:
"Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community. It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall."


How does a man who is so innately, and publicly, stupid, get elected to public office?
Oh, it's Tennessee.

Roberto Miranda, "pastor", on New England, marriage equality and 9/11:
"Satan has warred mightily against this region, and has effectively neutralized it through the influence of principalities of rationalism, humanism, intellectual pride and spiritual arrogance. Massachusetts, as well as all of New England, has become a cemetery of churches, a breeding ground for heretical doctrine, and intellectual furnace energizing attitudes of godlessness, rational arrogance and secularism. It is no coincidence, of course, that something as dramatically distant from the Christian worldview as gay marriage would be originated in this region. Is it exaggerated to see prophetic significance in the fact that on September 11, 2001 Boston served as the point of departure for the deadly forces that spread so much destruction and havoc in this nation and all over the world? What took place at the material level is now being carried out at the moral and spiritual level, as the virus of homosexuality and gay marriage begins to spread dramatically all over this nation and perhaps the world."


This pastor supports Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney praises this pastor for his support.
A man who blames 9/11 on homosexuality. And New England.

Matt Heinz, openly gay Arizona state representative, on running in the special election to replace Rep. Gabrielle Giffords:
"Moving forward I believe the best thing that we can do is to honor her strength, and conviction, and her leadership, by getting somebody, quickly, because we don't have much time, into that seat who is going to carry forward in the tradition of moderate, bipartisan, common sense governance that she did so well for Southern Arizona."


I think Gabby would like this idea.
Run, Matt, run.

Letters! We Get Letters: Stacey Campfield's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Edition

So, way back at the first of March, I wrote a post [HERE] about Tennessee asshat Stacey Campfield and his proposed "Don't Say Gay" legislation, in which elementary and middle school teachers would not be allowed to mention the word gay, er, well, Campfield uses the word 'homosexuality', focusing on the word 'sex', in any classroom, anywhere, any time, ever.

And I got a few responses, mostly from people thinking with a full deck. But, imagine my surprise when, just last night, I got a response of a different color from 'Anonymous,' who apparently gets around because I see his, or her name, on a lot of blogs.

Anyhow, 'Anonymous' took umbrage with some of the things I said, and decided to set me, er, straight, so let's listen in:

Anonymous:

"I would just like to say that you are really throwing around alot of mud with your name-calling. In addition, you are taking everything Mr. Campbell says out of context."

To be fair, Anonymous realized after posting this comment that it was Stacey Campfield, and not Stacey Campbell, because he or she came back to tell me that it was Campfield and not Campbell. But, about the name-calling. i called Campfield a wingnut, twice, and an asshat, once--to be fair, I misspelled asshat as ashat, but still.......I failed to call him a fucktard. I failed to call him a douchenozzle. I failed to call him a dumbass homophobic moronic knuckle-dragging pigfucking loser.

So, I deserve some credit for my restraint. But, 'Anonymous' goes on:

"He says that controversial issues like this should be dealt with 'in the home'--not nonexistent "until high school" as you put it."

Hey, 'Anon', homosexuality isn't a controversial issue. It's a sexual orientation just like heterosexuality, and when Campfield says it shouldn't be said, discussed, uttered at no time, in elementary and middle schools, that means it is a 'non-existent- topic until high school. You'll understand this when you get to high school, fingers crossed.
Still, it goes on:

"And as Campbell also said: the gays he has had "civil" conversations with about the bill agree with him. As he also described to them (not direct quotation): how would you feel if a teacher was allowed to say that homosexuality is evil or an abomination? This bill would prevent that as well."

Of course he calls the conversations with gays who agree with him civil, yet he doesn't seem to mention one single gay person who agrees with him. And, while it's nice to say teachers can't call being gay an abomination, the mere fact that they cannot discuss it all makes it seem shadowy and suspect to their students. And what about the gay kid? See, gay folks are born gay, and even in elementary school gay kids suspect they are gay. But then they're made to feel less than because they, and their families, aren't discussed. And what about the kid with two mommies or two daddies? They are made to feel invisible as well. Yeah, that's a nice way to educate people.
Look, the Holocaust was ugly and nasty, so, let's not discuss that either.
And it goes on:

"So, really, this bill IS neutral. It helps both sides by keeping such controversial and personal issues out of the school classroom."

First off, 'Anonymous,' neutrality is non-existent, which is another way of saying gays don't exist. We do. We have. We will. And just because some wingnut in Tennessee, and a wingnut with an 'Anonymous' fetish doesn't like it, doesn't make it so. Campfield called being gay controversial. It isn't. He also called it a personal choice. It isn't. Unless you think people like Stacey Campfield, and yourself, for that matter, choose to be straight. And, if you did choose your hetero-ness, please tell me when and where and how you came to that realization?
Then 'Anonymous' brings in God and Christianity:

"Plus, now you know how Christians feel when they try to discuss Creation or a Young Earth instead of evolution in the classroom. I don't see you standing up for that kind of equality; oh wait, that's probably because it doesn't contrast what YOU yourself believe right?"

Hey wingnut. Pay attention, You can go to a church, or a religious school and read all about Creationism, and Adam and Eve, and a boat large enough to hold two of every single animal on Earth--except for the poor unicorns--on it.
Public school is not a church-sanctioned education,. There is, still, in this country, a separation of church and state for a reason, so wingnuts like you do not impose your ideas on anyone else. But, that's what you want.
I say, you wanna learn about Creationism, go to a religious school, go to church, but public schools teach s-c-i-e-n-c-e.
And then 'Anonymous' goes off the deep end, blaming all the ills of the country on abortion and homosexuality:

"And to everyone who thinks this issue isn't somehow tied to our failing economy. . .Have you ever thought that maybe the Bible is right, and that because our nation blatantly goes against God's Word--about moral issues like abortion, homosexuality, etc.--that this is the reason our country is plummeting into massive chaos?"

Seriously? God caused the failing economy because of abortion and homosexuality?
Um, homosexuality has been around for thousands of years, so why did God wait until 2011 to get all anti-gay. And, if she was so pissed off about abortion, which has been legal in this country for decades, what took her so long to get mad?
And, if God gets all pissy about moral issues, um, yeah, what about punishing Germany after Hitler killed 6 millions Jews? Was God too busy back then? What about the genocides going on all over the world? Has God got better things to do than to punish those people responsible for killing millions more?
I guess, for you, the only immoral things God cares about are a woman's legal right to choose, and people being born gay.
Your God doesn't care about the rest.
My god, little g, is love.
So, in closing, 'Anonymous', if you and your ilk, and by ilk, I mean the Stacey Campfields of the world, don't like the idea of gay people, don't be gay. You don't like abortion, don't have one. But do not attempt to tell me that not allowing the word 'gay' to be uttered in schools isn't a form of discrimination.
It is.

Stacey Campfield and Bill Dunn Don't Want To Hear The Word Gay

fp in Joy Land :::Hi Joy!:::, AKA the state of Tennessee, two lawmakers, Senator Stacey Campfield and Representative Bill Dunn, have introduced a bill in the state legislature that would ban schools from discussing any sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.

Bill Dunn

It's the Don't Say Gay bill.

Stacey Campfield

And these two wingnuts are serious.

The bill says, in part: “No public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.”

Yup, if they get there way, gay won't exist until you reach high school.


Ben Byers, of the Tennessee Equality Project:  “The Don’t Say Gay bill raises all kinds of issues about anti-gay bias, free speech and government overreach. It limits what teachers and students are able to discuss in the classroom. It means they can’t talk about gay issues or sexuality even with students who may be gay or have gay family.”

With all that's going on this country, from the economy, to the Wisconsin protests, to the crises in Egypt and Libya, and throughout the Middle East, with global warming, and environmental issues, unemployment, the cost of gas, this is all that these two ashats, Campfield and Dunn, can think to do?

With wingnuts like these two--and oh so many others--is it any wonder that the republican party is beginning to look like racists and homophobes and anti-middle class zealots?

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Don't Say It!

I saw this at Joe.My.God. and it pissed me off so much I had to post it instantly.

There is a Tennessee state lawmaker, and elected official y'all, who does not want homosexuality brought up at all in schools.

At all. Ever. No way. No how.

Repugnant Asshat Stacey Campfield believes the issue of homosexuality is too complicated for young minds to understand so he filed a "Don't Say Gay" bill, which would essentially ban teachers from talking about the topic.

Maybe it's too complicated for you, Stacy, you moron.

"I think our teachers need to stick with reading, writing, and arithmetic," Repugnant Campfield said. "It confuses a lot of children that are already in a difficult part of life, and it's a very complex issue."

He points out newspaper articles as examples of where homosexuality was being taught in schools, like a program in Knoxville that contains information on aids, gay and lesbian sex.

That isn't teaching homosexuality, you idiot. It's education about the cause and effects of AIDS. Say it with me, Stacey: You cannot teach someone to be gay. It cannot be done.

Chris Sanders of the Tennessee Equality Project said Campfield does not have enough proof that the issue is real, and calls the bill homophobic. "If you can't mention something, that sends a signal that there is something wrong with it."

"Homophobic means you're afraid of something. I think its a complex issue. This bill is neutral. It doesn't say we are going to preach against it. We are not going to preach for it; we are going to leave it neutral," Campfield said.

Leave it neutral?

How about not saying the words, oh I don't know, Catholic or Jew, Stacey? Is that next on your agenda?

How about never saying the words elected official Stacey Campfield?

Yeah, I like that idea.

In the end, the education committee voted to hold off on voting on the bill Wednesday. They agreed to study the issue for another year.